Streikdaten für ansässige Ärzte in England bestätigt
https://www.bma.org.uk/?utm_campaign=464809_09072025%20Residents%20England%20Strike%20dates%20announced%20July%20Member%20ADMIN&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20British%20Medical%20Association%20%28Comms%20Engagment%29&dm_i=7IPW,9YND,1982H5,19WV2,1
Von OkCardiologist3104
19 Kommentare
Damn, it’s going to be a proper struggle to get a doctor’s appointment when these strikes are on.
Oh wait….
Have they not only just been on strike and got payrises?
Good! Let them hear, what they need to say! This country can’t afford anymore of billionairs, millionairs and greedy career-politicians. If reform pushes through, we are DONE.
The problem with all the public sector is each part of the sector all make the same argument „Our pay has fallen in real terms, and we’re a special case“.
The same argument is used by police, teachers, nurses etc.
Well, the cold hard truth is that’s true. It may not be your fault. it may not be the fault of this government.
Blame austerity, blame Brexit, blame Covid, blame Liz Truss….keep going.
But the UK economy has not grown at a level able to sustain pay increases.
Money doesn’t magically grow on trees. The long term loss of GDP just due to Brexit is huge.
If the UK was a patient it would be very ill. You wouldn’t diagnose the solution the BMA are prescribing to treat that patient as it just makes it sicker.
When the Government lost its spine over welfare reform and the WFA, then decisions like this become harder.
In situations like this history tells us only a few things happen and none of them are pretty.
Greedy tbh
20% odd pay rise other year
Db pensions
Lucrative career path
Much better oay than juniors in France etc
Unaffordable demands driven by an extreme left wing cabal from wealthy backgrounds
Do they want Farage in power??
They have stated they want a pay rise that’s been restored to pre 2008 levels.
Here’s the thing though, doctors do have a lot of power to protest and they have the single biggest collateral they can have to beat the government over the head with.
That is human lives.
Pay them what they want. Or suffer a death toll. Those are your only choices really.
My doctors salaried GP was on £78k a year she worked 4 days a week, 3 days seeing actual patients.. You can’t tell me doctors are not paid enough.
Edit. A lot of doctors sitting around scrolling Reddit, doing fuck all downvoting this. Just kind of proves my point
Money doesn’t grow on trees and nobody is pointing out this is *resident* doctor salaries, which is a temporary stepping stone to standard doctor salaries.
They got a 22% rise last year in a terrible economic climate. Nobody else in the public sector is getting anywhere close to these pay rises. They could get offered another 22% this year and they’d be back next year for more strikes.
I can’t sympathise with this, patients are the ones who will suffer.
They’re going to lose this battle and have likely just talked themselves out of the next several pay rises they were going to get.
Slow clap.
On a bank holiday, a first year doctor is the lowest paid human in a hospital.
Edit – As others have pointed out, everyone else gets some form of bank holiday bonus pay, resident doctors do not.
Give in to them once and they’ll come back for more.
At that point, it would probably pay better in the long run if we just fully funded and bursaried doctors through medical school and massively expanded the teaching of it, to the point that we didn’t care if 75% of them immediately left for Australia.
Sure, it’s a negotiation tactic, but give them 20% rises 2 years in a row and you’ll have 1 million other public sector workers demanding the same thing. Only for doctors to come back in 2 years demanding 30% payrises.
I’d rather we gave the nurses the pay rise instead of the doctors.
Boris and princess Carrie would never let this happen.
They’ve had 30% over the previous 3 years in what other profession could that be said. So much for the Hippocratic oath.
I assume all those who went after the Tory government over strikes will do same in kind to Labour. Think not. Wonder why
Good on them.
Pay doctors an appropriate salary on par with developed nations.
For reference, a couple of years ago the [Nuffield Trust](https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/exploring-the-earnings-of-nhs-doctors-in-england) investigated doctors pay and came up with very nuanced conclusions: back then, real terms pay was lower than a decade previously, similar to two decades previously and higher than three decades previously: historically, governments have tended to give unaffordable pay rises followed by years of clawing it back through subsequent below inflation increases.
International comparisons are hard due to differences in currency, purchasing power, experience, working conditions etc but their attempt indicated solve countries paid more than us, some paid less.
They got a 24% pay rise a year ago and now want another 29%
They need to start thinking about wising up